Sexual Types focuses on six figures from the early modern stage—the sodomite, the tribade, the narcissistic courtier, the citizen wife, the bawd, and the court favorite—that reveal in particularly compelling ways, how sexual transgressions were understood to intersect with social, gender, economic, and political transgressions.

Sexual TypesEmbodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley

PART II. SEXUAL TYPES AND SOCIAL DISCRIMINATIONSChapter 3. Mincing Manners: The Narcissistic Courtier and the (De)Formation of CivilityChapter 4. Calling Whore: The Citizen Wife and the Erotics of Open Work

PART III. SEXUAL TYPES AND INTERMEDIARY FUNCTIONSChapter 5. Making Common: Familiar Knowledge and the Bawd's SeductionChapter 6. Making Monsters: The Caroline Favorite and the Erotics of Royal WillEpilogue